I’ve spent most of the first three days of this week interviewing people about the deal. Read them all and draw your own conclusions. The president has not engaged in a single detailed, tough interview concerning the hologram that he calls a deal, nor has Secretary Kerry. Even so he has admitted that the deal ends up allowing nukes to Iran within a dozen years.

The deal has to be killed by Congress and Iran’s leaders have made that much easier. The president such recognize that and simply refuse to return to the table and announce negotiations have ended based on these twin statements that reveal for everyone to see the Iranians have been “negotiating” in bad faith from day one.

In reverse order, the key interviews I’ve conducted, for which both audio and transcript are available: